Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-07
HAD HIS OWN Wy.
story of the Aaeen".res of a Bos'o" B0

sforv If the Adventures of Bosto" f'oy'
New York Graphical
The younger brother OF one OF the
best-known of Boston dentists, says the
Boston Record, happened to have
particularly severe attack of diphtherla
when he was boy, and after he had re-
covered from it the doctor who had ut
sended him said to the parents:
aft you want to raise that boy would
advise you to let him have his own way
for while. Don't cross him."
The trouble is that when lively boy
is allowed to "have his own way for
while" the while never comes to an end.
That is what happened in this case.
The boy wasa bright, attractive, amiable
fellow, whom everybody liked and al
ways will like, but the habit OF not
being crossed rather grew on him. He
was bright at school, and was in the
midst of q brilliant career in the Latin
school, varied and Illuminated by an
occasional escapade, when the excellent
Master Gardner called him one day and
said to him:
"H-, it is perfectly plain to me
that you and I can't get along together
any longer"
"Well," said the boy, it was becom-
ing pretty evident to me that one or the
other of us would have to go. )"
1t was the boy that went
That very day he visited his prosper
GUS brother, the dentist, and told him
the story of his premature graduation.
"What are you going to do?" asked
the dentist.
I'm going West"
He had another brother in Chicago,
and that was his immediate point of
destination.
"Well," said the dentist. "the doctor
said you were to have your own way for
a while, and I suppose you had better
CO."
About six weeks afterward the dem
fist received q dispatch from his brother,
the graduate, dated somewhere in
Kansas. He had got through in Chicago
and started farther west, and some
body had stolen ali his money. The
doctor fitted him out again, and he
started once more. But he had net
gone far when misfortune overlook
him again, and he was once more left
without cent. This time he did not
send home for money, but hired out
with wagon train and "bull-whacked"
his way clear across the continent, turn
ing up at San Francisco in the course
of time.
He returned East just long enough to
study law, and went back to San
Francisco to practice his profession.
He succeeded in it admirably, but found
the life monotonous. So in order to
afford himself little occasional di-
version he bought ranch up in the
mountains, in the widest region he
could find, and took trip there when
ever the business Of whacking witnesses
and demolishing learned brethren grew
tedious to him.
One evening in the mountains, just
as the sun was setting, the San Fran
cisco lawyer, when about q mile from
his ranch, had dismounted to get a
drink from stream that rushed down
the hill alongside the trail. He was
STOPPING over, holding his horse by the
bride, when mounted stranger came
tearing down the trail, and refining up
in front of the lawyer presented pistol
straight in front of his eyes and
shouted:
Drop that bride and skip out o
here or the gun goes Off"
The lawyer, who had no weapon more
formidable than penknife in his pos.
session, remained as cool as if he were
cross-questioning witness at San
Francisco. He held on to the bride,
too. "Blaze away" said he.
The ranger held the pistol where it
was, only moving it a little nearer and
little nearer to the lawyers glitterine
black eyes. The lawyer never fiinched
or trembled or paled. The ranger
meant business. The muscles of his
finger upon the trigger tightened-and
then he dropped his arm, as if he had
suddenly recognized stronger will
than his own.
"Well, hev Your own way about it.
stranger" said he. "But that's fa'1
sort of a boss you've got there"
The lawyer had in the meantime
glanced at the rangers animal. 1t was
a clean-cut, strong-limbed American, 81
as good as his own.
"How'll you swap" he asked.
The ranger laughed
well, he said, "seein it's you how'll
about even do?"
Chat suits me-" said the Yankee.
So the stranger dismounted: the
lawyer got upon the horse of the mar
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